You'd be hard-pressed to find an MLS player more dangerous or accurate from the left side on set pieces than Davis.

With eight matches to go, the two-time Dynamo Most Valuable Player is making a case for MLS MVP.

Davis has a career-high and league-leading 13 assists, including four multi-assist games. In a season in which the Dynamo have gone long stretches without all-time franchise scoring leader Brian Ching, Davis is one of the reasons Dominic Kinnear's club is third in the Eastern Conference.

"He's leading the league with 13 assists, and that's huge for us," All-Star goalkeeper Tally Hall said of Davis. "Every assist leads to a goal. You can't say that he scored 13 goals, but he's been a big part of our attack."

National duty

Davis, 29, has added three goals. He has been playing so well this year that many fans of the U.S. national team hope coach Jürgen Klinsmann gives the St. Louis native a longer look than Bob Bradley gave him.

The four-time All-Star hasn't picked up a cap with the national team since he exited with a hamstring injury Feb. 24, 2010, against El Salvador. Since debuting with the national team against Panama at the 2005 Gold Cup, Davis has earned four caps.

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But he was not called up for a 10-day camp ahead of matches against Costa Rica and Belgium.

Hainault's Canada will host St. Lucia on Sept. 2 and visit Puerto Rico on Sept. 6 for World Cup qualifiers. Costly, who scored two goals in his last match with Honduras against Venezuela this month, will face Colombia on Sept. 2 and Paraguay on Sept. 6. Jamaica will visit Ecuador on Sept. 2.

Davis, who has made it his mission to honor at least one member of the U.S. armed forces at every Dynamo home game and a thousand service members at one game a year, would love for Klinsmann to bring him back into the U.S. national team pool.

"I would love to represent my country," he said. "People ask me that all the time. There's no doubt that I think anybody in this country would want to have the opportunity to represent their country in one way or another. I definitely hope that day comes. Until it does, I'm going to be here working hard and helping this team."

Davis has displayed an ability to compete against the best in the world. At the 2009 All-Star Game, he scored against Everton of the English Premier League. At the 2010 All-Star Game, he hit the post against Manchester United. A year later, he was one of the MLS All-Stars' most menacing players in the rematch against the Red Devils, testing Manchester United with three shots on goal.

Assists machine

Davis helped create 84 scoring chances this season, according to official MLS stats provider Opta, which says the second-leading player in the league at creating scoring chances has 51.

"You're a player, and you take pride in how you do," Davis said. "You want people to recognize the things you do. Most importantly you want to help your team win. That's what you're out there to do. It's not necessarily I'm going out here to play to wow everybody. You're going out there to do what you need to do to help your team win and get three points. If people notice that, that's fantastic."